📚 noun • entry_id 31873
agent provocateur
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt ˌpɹəʊ.vɒk.æ.tʊə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agente provocador
A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.
"This agent-provocateur business is quite foreign to British justice."
I was told afterwards—quite possibly it was true—that agents provocateurs were touching off masses of explosive in order to increase the general noise and panic.
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